By Asmau Ahmad
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has urged all physically-challenged applicants for the National Identification Number (NIN) to remain calm and shun unruly behaviours at NIMC offices.
NIMC Lagos West Coordinator, Mr Olumide Aremu, made the appeal in an interview with newsmen following the protest by People Living with Disability (PLWD) at NIMC office on Tuesday.
Health Reporters recalled that some aggrieved PLWD NIN applicants staged a protest at the Ikeja office of NIMC on Tuesday over alleged neglect and delay in their enrollment.
Mr Aremu, who said that although NIMC gave priority to PLWD, nursing mothers and elderly people in enrollment, it should not be seen as a licence to be rude and disorderly whenever they arrived NIMC offices.
“It is in our policy to give priority to physically challenged, but because of COVID-19 there are some standards we need to implement. So, it is not every physically challenged that we will need to move in at the same time because of the COVID-19 protocol.
“On Tuesday, when they came, they were trying to move in so that they can do the capturing. “All of them wanted to come in at the same time, not even minding people who were being attended too. What the Minister said was that we should be doing a booking system because of COVID-19.”
